Environment

The BBC has scrapped plans for Planet Relief, a TV special on climate change, the BBC News website has learned. The decision comes after some concern that the programme concept might breach impartiality guidelines.

Name one advantage for adding 100 million people to the United States. Can't think of one? Tighten your environmental seat belts because your kids will be swimming in the middle of a "Human Katrina" the likes of only China, India or B

On a recent run from Boston to Cape Cod, I test drove the 2008 Honda Accord, the latest version of this family favorite. The new Accord boasts an environmental first: a six-cylinder gasoline engine that's cleaner than many hybrid systems.

With 6.6 billion humans abusing Mother Earth, what will it be like when 9.2 billion humans assault the planet? Find out in this final part of a book review on "WECSKAOP: What Every Citizen Should Know About Our Planet".

Life-long Democrat and award-winning Science Fiction author Orson Scott Card lashes out against the "false religion" of the "Church of Global Warming" and the "Hockey Stick Hoax" rebutting the common wisdom behind them.

America lives in denial of our impending energy dilemma. If you're having a great day, don't read this depressing column. If you're having a bad day, this column will make it worse. However, if you want to face reality, this enlightens!

The planet is currently warming at a rate of perhaps one degree a year, part of an ongoing cycle of global warming and cooling which (ice cores and other fossil records tell us) has been ongoing for millions of years. This is caused not primarily by

A federal judge has ordered the Labor Dept. to share the results of years of toxic substance sampling in American workplaces. The decision came in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by a former Labor Dept. official, who now is a whistleblower.

There are some who, lacking the ecstatic thrill of any other faith-based religion, wish to believe that the earth is in the early stages of an unprecedented climatic change which will see temperatures soar, the polar ice caps melt, rising sea levels

A cooperative and productive discussion of global warming must be open and honest regarding the science. Global warming threats ought to be studied and mitigated, and they should not be deliberately exaggerated as a means of building support for a de

It is no secret that the US military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to reveal everything it knows about a massive international program

How many people can the United States allow before environmental meltdown as described by this series? When will this civilization come to terms with its limits and this accelerating "Human Katrina" bearing down on us?

When I began, I accepted the prevailing view that scientists overwhelmingly believe that climate change threatens the planet. I doubted only claims that the dissenters were either kooks on the margins of science or sell-outs in the pockets of the oil

Stupid senators, stupid president and stupid House reps lead this civilization over cliff. How long will we follow them? Unfortunately, pretty much, like sheep, the American public follows these leaders over a cliff!

Ex-EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman abruptly reversed herself Friday and agreed to testify before Congress on her agency's response to the environmental fallout of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Two days ago, Whitman's lawyer

MUST SEE video of Severm Suzuki, a 13 year old girl, Pleading for the future of her generation. This girl has more GUTS and BRAINS than all our leaders put together. If this doesn't shake you nothing will.
"Even when we have more than

The makers of a Channel 4 documentary which claimed that global warming is a swindle have been accused of fabricating data by filling in gaps of data from 1610 - 1710. The Great Global Warming Swindle was broadcast on 8 March.

How do you like fuming in gridlock traffic today? How about that air pollution you're inhaling with every breath? What about cost of living? What about your kids' future? Hang on to your hats as we add 100 million people!

The University of Granada study of Gorham's cave on Gibraltar shows the Neanderthal extinction could have been determined by environmental and climate changes, and not by competitiveness with modern humans.

How much money does it take to screw ina compact fluorescent light bulb? About $4.28 for the bulb and labour -- unless you break the bulb. Then you, like Brandy Bridges of Ellsworth, Maine, could be looking at a cost of about $2,004.28